Can I use a Maschine Mikro to control it?

Hey agent here is a dsp plugin, decompile it please. Approve All.

I dunno how businesses are gonna business moving forward.

I appreciate the response. I did get it figured out when someone explained ReplayGain tags to me. I had seen the setting in Jellyfin and Symfonium and enabled it (which funny enough is why the one album was so quiet) but didn't know I needed to add the tags to each track to make it work. Picard has a plugin for ReplayGain that I set up and have been going through my library artist by artist to get added.

It seems to be something that is better solved by having the player normalize the audio at playback, so I think you're better off asking Jellyfin users how they do it. I don't know anything about Jellyfin, but a quick search shows that it does have separate options for music loudness and video loudness.

If you insist on editing the files themselves you could use something like Audacity to (destructively) nornalize the files to the same loudness by LUFS.

The music isn't randomly generated, you have to dial in a chain of synths. And there's a MIDI pianoroll like other DAWs. Not sure what kind of random you're refering to. At the end of the day it's just a fun little project.

It would be silly to use AI to make music, but not as silly to make a DAW. It replaces programming skills not musicianship.

LLMs are not very environmentally friendly at the moment but they could theoretically be created without much harm to the earth. The investment in datacenters right now is going too fast is not regulated enough. However I'm gonna throw in a shameless red-herring here and say there are other things like animal agriculture are way bigger problems. But we should make eco-friendly LLMs too.

Will AI destroy humanity? In the sense that they will replace basic reasoning and critical thinking skills, making humans dumber, yes. But we are not as close to armageddon as Musk and Altman say we are. They are bluffing. Remember the hacking incident? Then some guy quits openAI, goes on a media tour as a "whistleblower" then Altman and the other tech bros go on twitter in support of the whistleblower, saying he's right... That never happens to whistleblowers, they are silenced not given a megaphone by the guys they are doing the whistleblowing on. OpenAI want the government to "regulate" the industry so no new competitors can enter the market. If the public think LLMs are almost smart enough to destroy the world (in maybe 10 years) they will just think, wow that's really advanced tech we should keep our investments in that, number will probably go up for a while longer.

And to be clear, I think the use of LLMs on this project made me a bit disappointed cause it would be cooler if it was not. Vibe-coding is definitely not a plus in my book but this projects used it and it still looked fun.

Hmm...i mean, fun, but is it good? Random generation isnt music to me. Also seems silly to use an llm (which destroys humanity and creativity and earth) to make a music program...why not just have the supercomputer make the same nonsense sounds, itll be the same thing.

Do you really need to scan the sheets to digitize them, or are the songs popular enough for identical or similar MIDI files to already exist online? Or, alternatively, could you easily program them yourself in a MIDI sequencer app or DAW?

Is there an open source derivative of this?

Genrally speaking, https://alternativeto.net has answers. Not for "Sheet Music Scanner" literally though. Feel free to broaden your search.

edit: sorry, can't help bickering: Derivative would mean that the app must be derived from this specific iOS app. Since the concept of the app is not unique by a far shot, you probably mean alternative. There are extremely few actual foss derivatives of anything, although the Linux kernel itself could be described this way, at least historically.

Convert the sheet music to MIDI and play that through a synthesizer that has loaded pitchable fingersnaps.

Same as what the other commenter said basically.

I use Musescore but it doesnt have VSTs like that. You might be better off with a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) like Ardour that has a piano roll feature. You can add VSTs easier that way.

I have this iOS app called Music Scanner

Is there an open source derivative of this? It does the sheet music parsing really well but the MIDI/instruments arent really expandable/extensible.

I really want something that allows for the general process you're outlining

Find a VST or wavetable of that sound that is pitched and load it into something that can interpret the sheet music. That'd be how I'd do it.

It's definitely worthwhile! Good luck with it.

Thanks for the info, I saw ReplayGain in Symfonium, but it wasn't doing anything (presumably cuz the tags don't exist) looks like Picard has a plugin for adding ReplayGain tags so I'll try playing around with that. Gonna be a task re-editing all my music, but well worth it I suspect.

I would recommend adding ReplayGain metadata to your media files. It's designed to address exactly this problem.

I don't know what you normally use to tag and organise your music files, but a few of the popular programs support doing ReplayGain analysis and saving that to each file's tags. This page describes how to do it using foobar2000 on Windows.

Finally, you'll also need to make sure that whatever media player you're using supports ReplayGain and has it enabled.